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Russian Pictures

02 June 2015 | 10:30 AM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

10,855,375GBP
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  • 51
    Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova
    Study of a Sleeping Girl
    LOT SOLD.3,845,000GBP
  • 22
    Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
    Portrait of Ardalion Petrovich Novosiltsev 
    LOT SOLD.869,000GBP
  • 96
    Pavel Tchelitchew
    Bullfight
    LOT SOLD.677,000GBP
  • 42
    Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich
    Before the Rain 
    LOT SOLD.497,000GBP
  • 24
    Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
    Storm over the Black Sea
    LOT SOLD.341,000GBP
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Sale Number: L15112 Lots : 185

SALE TOTAL

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Sotheby’s June 2015 Russian Pictures sale achieved a total of £10.8 million. Zinaida Serebriakova’s Study of a Sleeping Girl sold for £3,845,000, far in excess its pre-sale estimates of £400,000-600,000 and established a new auction record for the artist. Another auction record was set by Pavel Tchelitchew’s Bullfight, which sold for £677,000, over three times the pre-sale estimate. Other highlights included a portrait of Ardalion Novosiltsev by Vladimir Borovikovsky, which sold for £869,000, and Nikolai Roerich’s Before the Rain, which achieved £497,000, more than double its estimate of £200,000-300,000.

Sotheby’s has confirmed its dominant position in the market for Russian paintings, having held the most successful sale of any international auction house in London.

AUCTION DETAILS

Our June 2015 Russian Pictures sale features paintings, works on paper and photographs from three centuries. Among the highlights is a group of works by Pavel Tchelitchew, including two superb gouaches from his Bullfight series inspired by a trip to Spain in 1934. The sale further includes works from the collection of Boris Bakhmeteff, Russian ambassador to the United States from 1917 to 1922, among them paintings by Petr Konchalovsky and Zinaida Serebriakova acquired at the 1924 Russian Art Exhibition at the Grand Central Palace in New York.

The 19th century section of the sale features the exquisite Portrait of Ardalion Petrovich Novosiltsev by Vladimir Borovikovsky, Alexei Savrasov’s recently rediscovered masterpiece The Volga near Yurevets as well as a rare view of Cairo by Ivan Aivazovsky dating from 1870.

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Jo Vickery
Senior Director
International Director
Russian Art
+44 20 7293 5597
jo.vickery@sothebys.com
Frances Asquith
Senior Vice President
Specialist, New York
Impressionist & Modern Art
+1 212 894 1063
frances.asquith@sothebys.com
Reto Barmettler
Director
Head of Department, London
Russian Pictures
+44 20 7293 5673
reto.barmettler@sothebys.com
   
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